Provenance:Marcus D. Ezekiel collection; his sale, Sotheby’s, 21 May 1946, lot 54 (illus. pl.5), purchased by Frank Partridge & Sons for Sir William Burrell, £36; by whom gifted to the Corporation of the City of Glasgow, 1944.

Printed sources
Sotheby & Co., 21 May 1946, Catalogue of a portion of the collection of early Chinese pottery and porcelain formed by the late Marcus D. Ezekiel Esq., of Hove. Sold by order of Mrs Marcus Ezekiel, lot 54 (illus. pl.5) See Hobson, Wares of the Ming Dynasty, pl.34, fig.2, and The Art of the Chinese Potter, pl.107, fig.1.